Map-based graphical user interface indicating geospatial activity metrics

US12079445B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• SNAP INC. · US

Inventors

• Daniel Amitay · New York, US
• Jonathan Brody · Santa Monica, US
• Maxwell Gale · New York, US
• Timothy Jordan Garcia · Toronto, CA
• Daniel Vincent Grippi · New York, US
• Jeffrey Arthur Johnson · Frisco, US
• Sheridan Kates · New York, US
• Andrew Lin · Manhattan, US
• Walton Lin · Chatham, US
• Gaurav Misra · New York, US
• Suraj Vindana Samaranayake · New York, US
• Amer Shahnawaz · Santa Monica, US
• Evan Spiegel · Los Angeles, US

Key dates

• Filing date: May 12, 2023
• Grant date: Sep 3, 2024
• Expiry date: May 12, 2043

Classification

• Technology area (CPC —): General

Abstract

A map-based graphical user interface (GUI) for a public messaging platform allows a user location-based to their own expired ephemeral content. Such expired content is no longer available to other users for online viewing. The user can, however, switch the GUI between a live mode and a historical mode, access to their own expired content in the historical mode being facilitated in a manner closely similar to that for viewing live publicly available content.